Linguistic Obsession

"Want to see smoke come out of my ears, just show me a misplaced apostrophe or an improperly used transitive verb." I didn't write that, but I'll be nice and not edit the wonky use of commas by my generous host.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

IN WHICH! IN WHICH!

I've been on hold for a total of forty minutes today for various representatives of a particular community college. I've had it up to my prepositions with these people. One last time - it is NOT "Your call will be answered in the order it was received."

Say it with me, recorded messages everywhere. "Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received." "In which"! Don't make me diagram it for you.

I feel better now. Back to the accounting....